On Apr 6, 2:46 pm, Quadibloc wrote:
On Mar 31, 9:35 am, David Richerby
wrote:

RookHouse wrote:
The REAL inventor of theGothicChess piece, the "Chancellor".

http://www.rookhouse.com/blog/?p=164

Well, I sincerely hope that the inventors ofGothicChess don't go
around claiming that they invented the piece. GothicChess is just
Capablancachess with a different initial position.

It's worse than that.

Capablanca Chess is just a game invented by Carrera in 1617 with a
different initial position!

This has been played around with a lot of times. The nature of chess
makes one wonder why the Knight isn't combined with other pieces.
Carrera is one of the first to record this, and others built on it,
including several top chess players, with Capablanca being the latest
in a long line. There is even attempts to get them on an 8x8 board,
all the way back to the 1970s by shifting the knights and their pawns
up one space, and sticking them there. I actually dabbled with
configuration, and it makes for an interesting game. People have used
pocket pieces in the past, including gating recently. It can be
argued that the Knight mixed with rook, bishop and queen is the top
pieces for this.

Anyhow, all this discussion is moot, if people can't get the pieces
and board to play on them. You could go after the Gothic pieces, but
I would wager you risk lawsuits if you deviate. Without pieces being
readily available, there isn't much of a chance of mass adoption.
People can wish me luck here as I attempt to try to get generic
Capablanca type pieces available to the public.

- Rich